He Dani finally bought a few kinds of beans in the grain and oil shop, a few dry miscellaneous items in the dry goods shop, a snack in the roasted goods shop, two catties of mid-range tea in the tea shop, plus all kinds of sundries, carrying a full basket in the elbow of the elbow, and returned with He Xiaojie full load.

Halfway through, I passed a steamed bun shop, where the guy shouted at the delicious big steamed buns that had just come out of the oven, and many people were around to buy them. He Dani had already walked past the bun shop, and out of the corner of her eye, she saw He Xiaojie who was following her always peeking sideways, so she stopped and walked back with He Xiaojie, and 'spended' a penny to buy two bean paste buns for him to make snacks.

"Take it and eat it, be careful of the burn."

"Thank you, big sister." He Xiaojie got an unexpected joy, holding the hot bun in both hands and happily taking a big bite, the sweet glutinous bean paste slipped from his throat into his stomach, and the beauty of the heart 'flower' bloomed.

He Xiaojie stopped in place and ate a few bites of steamed buns, and when he looked up and saw that He Dani had already walked to the front, he hurriedly trotted a few steps to follow, and looked up at He Dani's side face with his head raised in adoration.

The big sister is so powerful, she even knew that she wanted to eat buns just now, everyone said that the big sister has good skills, this should also be one of the big sister's skills, right?

He Dani didn't know He Xiaojie's mental activity at all, watching He Xiaojie take a few steps to eat steamed buns and rest for a while, she only felt that He Xiaojie's physical fitness was terrible, looking at his thin arms and hands, nutritional deficiencies were certain, and I didn't know if there was edema caused by protein deficiency in addition to caloric weight loss.

The sister and brother walked all the way home, He Xiaojie's walking speed became slower and slower, and the two sweet bean paste buns didn't seem to provide him with much calories.

It was her idea that this family had fallen to such an extent, but if it weren't for He Dawei, they sold themselves for eight hundred taels first, and they wouldn't have made such a move in order to get out and regain their freedom, not to mention that she didn't have a trace of guilt at all about taking revenge on He Liang and her eldest brother He Xiaoqiang, and this body still remembers the harm that these two people brought to them back then.

And she is not a wicked person, after taking revenge on the person who should be revenged, she is still willing to take good care of the innocent object of involvement, after all, in terms of blood, He Xiaojie is the half-brother of her own shell, since she occupies this shell, then she should do her duty. What's more, the neighbors are all in their eyes, of course she wants to give everyone a good impression of being well-behaved, docile, obedient, capable, filial and considerate, so that she can trample her stepmother He Liang on the ground heavily, so that she can no longer cause any trouble for herself.

As for the two younger sisters who were sold by He Xiaoqiang, they were secretly taken over by the Xiangjia branch back then, transferred to the Xie family in Beijing, and sent by the Xie family to other courtyards to be girls, as long as she is willing in the future, she can find those two half-sisters back anytime and anywhere.

However, that gambler He Xiaoqiang is a tricky person, and it will take some work to deal with him, and when he receives the news that he is going home, he will inevitably come back to beg for money, and how to send him away is a problem.

The sister and brother finally returned home, the carpenter and the window paper worker were still working in the yard, and the first to see He Dani and the two come in, and reported to He Dawei in the house, He Dawei and He Liang ran out to meet their son's 'daughter' together.

"Nier, come quickly, your uncle and the uncle of the clan are here, and they have been waiting to see you." He Dawei stepped forward and took He Dani's hand and was about to enter the house, while He Liang helped his son remove the back basket on his body and take the charcoal into the house to put it away properly.

"Why are these elders here?" He Dani thought to herself, it turned out that her father also had relatives here.

"Ouch, my good 'daughter', it's a big deal for you to go home from the palace, of course the elders want to come to see you and discuss with you about worshipping your ancestors. Come on, come into the house, and say hello to your uncles. He Dawei didn't care about the details, and dragged the 'girl' and went inside.

"Daddy, you have to let me clean up, I just came back, my hair was 'messy' by the wind, I haven't seen you elders for so long, I can't be rude." He Dani stood still, shook off He Dawei's hand, and 'touched' and 'touched' her hair.

He Dawei saw that the 'girl' was still carrying a blue child on her elbow, and he was right to think about it, urging the 'girl' to move faster, and he rushed back to the East House to talk to his brothers.

He Dani turned back to her room, put down her daily necessities, put on her makeup, opened the mirror box and took a picture in the mirror, brushed her sideburns with a hat, and wiped the rouge gouache from the baggage. After dressing up, I came out and ran to the kitchen, put the beans and fruits on the kitchen table, and saw that there was boiling water on the stove, so I washed the big teapot used in summer, made a pot of tea, and took the fried snacks into the house.

"Daddy, the 'girl' is in." He Dani opened the curtain with her elbow, entered the room sideways, and swept her eyes, her stepmother and younger brother sat on the kang feet, He Dawei sat next to his wife and children at the kang table, and there were four middle-aged and elderly male 'sexual' elders in the room.

"Big sister, I'll help you." Xiao Jie, who came into the house with his mother to rest first, came up and took the teapot in He Dani's hand and placed it on the kang table, and came back to pick up the snacks in her hand.

"Nier, come, I've met the elders." He Dawei followed, led He Dani, and recognized people one by one.

"This is Uncle, Daddy's brother." He Dawei pointed to the middle-aged man sitting on the other side of the kang table and said, looking much younger than He Dawei.

"Niece and daughter, please Uncle An, Uncle Wanfu." He Dani saluted dignifiedly.

"This is the second uncle, my father's cousin." He Dawei led the 'girl' to another middle-aged man.

"Niece and daughter, please Erbo'an, Erbo's blessings." He Dani's movements were meticulous.

"This is the fourth uncle, my father's cousin."

"Niece and daughter, please the fourth uncle, the fourth uncle is blessed."

"This is the fifth uncle, the fourth uncle's own brother."

"Niece and daughter, please five uncles, five uncles are blessed."

He Dani saluted the elders one by one, and the elders did not receive this gift in vain, and they all gave a red bag as a meeting gift.

"Okay, good girl, much more promising than your father, look at what your father has been doing in the following years." The uncle 'touched' his mustache and laughed.

"Uncle, my father's name is no Ji Tailai, my niece and nephew don't know about family affairs in the palace, and now that I have come back, I will definitely find a way not to make the family suffer." In front of the elders, of course, I want to express my heart a little and let the elders rest assured.

"Okay, well said, ambitious, much better than your father." Uncle became more and more happy.

"Okay, okay, it's not too early now, hurry up and finish discussing the business, so that Nier can rest early, it's been a busy day today, I'm afraid Nier will be tired for a long time." The fourth uncle smiled and brought the topic back to the topic.

"Yes, yes, I was so happy to see Niel back that I almost forgot about it." Uncle sat up straight and coughed a few times.

"Nier, our elders discussed it like this before, you just came back, you must have to visit your relatives in the first few days, just hurry up and sort it out first in the ancestral hall, tight your time, when is it convenient for you, give a letter to the uncle, let's set a date." Uncle hopes that the sooner the better, these things are done as soon as possible, and you also have plenty of time to prepare New Year's goods and clean the house. ”

"Uncle, I'm really sorry, my niece and daughter have been away from home for a long time, and I can't remember family affairs clearly, and I have forgotten where our ancestral hall is, uncle, don't blame." He Dani looked apologetic.

"Alas, what is this saying, that is, you have to tell you without asking your uncle. Our ancestral hall is in Hejia Village, ten miles outside the county, and these He families in the county are all coming out of there, that is our hometown, everyone in the village is surnamed He, and the ancestral hall in the village is the largest and best around the county. ”

"Then this is a homecoming?" He Dani said happily.

"That's right, that's right, it's the return of the clothes, our Daniel will return to the hometown for the girls and daughters-in-law of the whole village, and the old and young masters, our Hejia Village has produced the most promising girl." The uncle laughed again until his molars were 'exposed', and the other uncles also laughed.

"Uncle, I wonder if my grandfather and grandmother are still there?"

"I am here, I am in my uncle's house for a long time, and my body and 'spirit' are all good."

"Okay, then early tomorrow morning, our family will go to visit our grandfather and grandmother, uncle and aunt, and in the afternoon, my niece and daughter will take my father, mother, and younger brother to tear the cloth to make clothes, and then arrange to go back to the village to worship our ancestors when the clothes are ready, what do you think, uncle?"

"If you want it, you have to get it, you have to go back home, of course, you have to wear new clothes. Okay, girl, everything is convenient for you, you think you are ready, come and tell the uncle, let's set a good day to go, we can come back in one day, and there will be no delay. ”

"Well, uncle, then it's decided, after sacrificing to the grandparents and nieces, the 'daughters' will also sweep the graves of their mothers, and I will try to arrange them as tightly as possible."

"Hey, this can be done together, isn't it buried in the ancestral grave of the He family, just outside our He family village, but if you want to sweep the tomb, then we have to set off earlier, so that we can come back before closing the city 'gate' in the afternoon."

"Well, this niece and nephew will think about it again, and wait until tomorrow to meet all the relatives and elders before making a decision."

"Okay, it's all your own bargain anyway, tell the uncle when it's decided." Uncle He naturally heard the meaning of his niece's words, and thought that his niece and daughter' had a wronged life when she was a child, and Uncle He didn't say much.

"Okay, as soon as the niece and daughter-in-law decide, I will inform the uncles as soon as possible, as for the matter of ancestor worship, I will be instructed by Uncle Lao, and the niece and daughter-in-law don't know anything about this."

"Don't worry about this, when you get to the ancestral hall, you can just do whatever the people say, it's not difficult."

"Yes, my niece wrote it down." He Dani saluted well.

"Come on, come on, eat tea, eat tea, my brother has a dry mouth after talking for so long." Seeing that the topic had come to an end, He Dawei got up and poured the boiling water in the cups in front of everyone on the ground casually, and carried the teapot to pour tea for everyone.

"Yo, this tea is good." Uncle He tasted a sip of tea soup, raised his eyebrows, smacked his lips and thought about it and admonished, "Brother, Nier is now out of the palace and going home, this time you have to treat the 'girl' well, don't be like before." ”

He Dawei, who was giving people tea, was defenseless, his hand shook, the tea soup fell on the table, the tea stains splashed on the hem of his clothes, and he lifted the pot with a ashamed face and turned to face his eldest brother, "Brother, don't mention the past, I know that I was confused and made Nier suffer, and I will never do it in the future." ”

"Hmph, you don't dare, just your current situation is leaving your family, see what you eat." In the end, Uncle He knows a little about his brother's family affairs, but he didn't speak back then, and now it's even more difficult to say anything, just say a few words of reminder.

He Dani was embarrassed in front of her, and hurriedly came forward to play a round, "Uncle is serious, Daddy is just a good old man's 'sex', he is used to calming things, and he pays attention to the male protagonist outside the 'female' master, the family father doesn't care about it, completely trusts and 'handover' to the housewife, the niece 'daughter' father was derelict in his duty when he was a child, but now that the father has learned his mistake, the uncle should not bring up the old things again, lest the father feel uncomfortable, and the niece and nephew will not be happy to see it." ”

As she spoke, He Dani also choked up, and 'pulled' out the handkerchief in her sleeve and wiped it on her eyes.

Several other uncles immediately fried the pot, blaming Uncle He, why did they have nothing to mention this stubble, which made their nieces and daughters sad, and they all left their seats and stepped forward to comfort them.

"Oh, what a girl, it's the uncle's gaffe, the uncle's gaffe, the uncle apologizes to you." Uncle He was so embarrassed that he clenched his fists again and again.

After persuading the elders for a while, He Dani finally stabilized her mood, re-showed her smile, and beckoned the elders to eat tea and food.

No one paid attention to the silent He Liang on the side of the kang foot, she was restless like a pins and needles, she knew that she had gone a little too far, but her stepmother and step-daughter were originally an incompatible family, and she also had her own hardships, who would pity her.

The group of people on He Dani's side chatted for a while, and the elders confirmed that the niece and daughter' mood had stabilized, so they stopped sitting and said goodbye together.

He Dani returned to her West House, carefully swept the kang with a broom, completely swept away the floating ash, and then went back to the East House to ask her stepmother He Liang to help put away the futon and pillow.

He Liang's wooden face came out to help, put the bedding and pillows on the West House Kang, and when he saw that everything was taken away, He Liang's pulled out his 'legs' and wanted to leave, she didn't want to stay in the same place with her stepdaughter, who knew that He Dani called her stepmother behind her.

"Mother, this 'bed' is thin for the three of you to use, the new quilt is covered underneath, and the old quilt is covered on top, today I bought new charcoal, add enough to burn it all night, and I won't wake up in the middle of the night." He Dani folded the thinner summer quilt and hugged it to He Liang.

"I don't want you to be pretending to be kind, our quilt is enough, unlike your thin skin and tender 'meat' that can't suffer."

"Fake kindness, really kindness, if you don't want me, I won't be reluctant, I just feel sorry for Xiaojie always hanging on the nose, that is the symptom of cold cold, it can be seen that he usually feels cold, his body temperature is ......insufficient, and he is like this at a young age" He Dani didn't finish speaking, his hand suddenly lightened, He Liang hugged the quilt from He Dani's hand with a cold face, turned around and left without saying a word.

The corners of He Dani's mouth hooked up with a sneer, and she turned to make the 'bed'.

As soon as the kang was laid, He Xiaojie came in and called her again, saying that the two masters had finished their work, and their father had also accepted it, and they were waiting for He Dani to settle the salary.

Hearing this, He Dani counted the wages from her purse and took it in her hand, came to the courtyard and walked around, seeing that the 'doors' and windows were all brand new, strong and impermeable, and gave the money to the two masters with satisfaction.

Sending off the two craftsmen, the four of them were busy making dinner again, and they still ate porridge in the evening, cooking eight-treasure porridge with the half of the braised 'meat' left at noon and a few dried fruits they bought, dealing with today, and going to the morning market to buy vegetables and cook seriously tomorrow morning

Entering the 'Door'